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The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!

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OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters

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HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...

Corbyn for second referendum!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...

Arconic warned of cladding fire risk a decade before Grenfell!

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THE COMPANY that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill ‘60 to 70’ people...

US NOT OUT OF WOODS YET –warns Fed Reserve boss Bernanke

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America’s central banker, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, has warned that the US economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’. In a speech delivered...

Don’t Expel Indian Doctors

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THE Royal College of Physicians, the BMA and all the leading medical organisations yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a sudden, and ‘blatantly...

Smash The Health Bill!

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‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions

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THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...

Labour leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff not the bosses’ says UCU

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LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

First speech of Greek PM Tsipras

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THE new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made his first speech to the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Sunday night saying he would carry out...

64% Say End Afghan War

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A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...

‘COME AND TALK TO LABOUR PARTY’ – Watson urges May!

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DEPUTY Labour Party leader Tom Watson yesterday urged Tory leader May to ‘come and talk to the Labour Party’. ‘If she cannot get...
Demonstrators in Forest Gate denounce Blair as the terrorist and demand the police apologise for the raid on a local working class family

APOLOGISE! Forest Gate residents condemn raid

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Hundreds of youth and workers demonstrated outside Forest Gate police station denouncing the capitalist state and declaring that ‘Tony Blair is the terrorist!’ They were...

Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...
Osborne told firefighters yesterday that the service must agree to ‘substantial operational reform’

500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed

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TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...
Two of the students occupying SOAS yesterday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – students marching today

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THE School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was occupied yesterday in solidarity with the Palestinian masses of Gaza who are under murderous...

PCS delegates demand national action

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted unanimously yesterday to pursue its ‘ongoing trade dispute’ with the government, including taking ‘industrial action’. Moving the...
Civil servants and other public sector workers demonstrated on March 26 defending their pensions and condemning the coalition

Coalition Pensions War!

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Trade unions yesterday reacted furiously to pension change threats by Treasury Secretary Douglas Alexander. He said that all public sector workers, bar the army, police...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...

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UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

‘You’re playing with fire’ – IMF tells Chancellor Osborne

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned UK Chancellor Osborne that he is ‘playing with fire’ with his fiscal policy. Blanchard also...

UK a ‘bullying hypocrite!’ – says Bashar al-Assad

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has accused the UK government of bullying and hypocrisy in its bid to militarise the conflict in his country. In an...

Osborne knifes working families & slashes Welfare!

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IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...
TGI Fridays, McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and Deliveroo ‘Gig Ecomomy’ workers demonstrate against low pay

Ban zero -hours!

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‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...
The enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby made a big impact with their demand for a general strike to bring down the coalition and their demand to end all zero-hour contracts

Call A General Strike Says Poa

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THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...

No Deadline For Shalit Prisoner Exchange

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A spokesman for the men holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captive in Gaza said yesterday that no deadline had been imposed on a potential...
Postal workers lobbying the Stock Exchange at 7am Friday morning angrily opposing the sell-off of Royal Mail

Strike to stop Royal Mail robbery

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POSTAL workers were very angry when they demonstrated outside the London Stock Exchange at 7.00am yesterday morning, on the day that Royal Mail shares...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
Rochdale Unison members marching against the coalition cuts last March

UNISON ROCHDALE STRIKE VOTE! – In defence of pay and conditions

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UNISON members at Rochdale Council have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in defence of their terms and conditions of employment. The ballot was held after...

NURSES DEMANDING A DOUBLE DIGIT PAY RISE – says RCN leader Cullen

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NURSES require a ‘double-digit’ pay rise! This was the message of the leader of the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) Pat Cullen yesterday, ahead of...
A section of the rally on Tuesday night in the port of Piraeus

Civil Conscription Defied!

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THE Greek coalition government ordered the forced ‘civil conscription’ of the seafarers on Tuesday on the sixth day of their 100 per cent solid...

3,000 Welsh JDs strike after 98% vote

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JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...

HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action

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Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
Banners of the campaigns of the Mark Duggan and Sean Rigg families on a United Families and Friends demonstration

Duggan family wins Judicial Review

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Mark Duggan’s family has won the right to challenge last year’s coroner’s court verdict that he was lawfully killed when he was shot dead...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...

Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...
Youth on the street in Port-au-Prince – thousands are now homeless in the capital

‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years

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SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

Severe malnutrition in Gaza

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THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused Israel of obstructing the entry of essential supplies needed to save the lives of children suffering from...

250,000-strong London march for Palestine

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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...

Busworkers launch a national health & safety campaign

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A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...

Cameron won’t fire Hunt

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RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...

Netanyahu warrant

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A JUDGE in Spain has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current Israeli officials over...